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Gilles Perrault, ancien restaurateur des musées nationaux, nous offre ici un livre de référence sur la sculpture sur bois, une somme couvrant tous les aspects cette technique décorative, qu’il s’agisse de l’histoire ou des procédés mis en œuvre : dessin, modelage, moulage, connaissance du matériau, outillage, taille et ornementation.
Les techniques sont abondamment documentées par un millier d’illustrations : documents anciens, chefs d’œuvre tirés de musées ou de collections particulières, artisans au travail, ateliers, sculptures photographiées pas à pas lors des différentes étapes de réalisation, schémas et figures des principaux motifs ornementaux.
Le professionnel trouvera dans ce livre la réponse aux questions qu’il est amené à se poser dans l’exercice quotidien de son métier. L’amateur, pour qui la maîtrise des problèmes techniques est la condition préalable à toute création artistique, y cherchera de quoi enrichir ses connaissances pour accroître son plaisir.

Sommaire :
Historique : De la préhistoire au XXe siècle
Le dessin : techniques et moyens d’expression, ombres, perspective, géométrie
Le modelage et le moulage : matériaux, outillage et technique
Le bois : propriétés, défauts, abattage, séchage, collage, assemblages, essences
Les outils : évolution, outillage manuel (manches, affûtage), machines
La taille : processus, coupe, tenue des gouges, planisculpture, remplages gothiques, copies de pièces anciennes et exemples modernes (Henry Moore, Marta Pan, André Affolter Condé, José Subira Puig, Christian Renonciat)
L'ornementation et ses déclinaisons : moulures, ornements géométriques, végétaux, feuilles d’acanthe, palmettes, rosaces, fruits, coquilles, rocaille, cartouches, rubans, bestiaire ornemental.

PEPIN gift wrap paper books all contain 4 pages of introduction and 12 large sheets of very high-quality wrapping paper. They can easily be removed from the books by tearing them along a perforated line. The wrapping papers are folded to fit into the book; when removed and opened they measure 50 cm x 70 cm (19,5 inch x 27,5 inch; a standard size for gift wrapping papers). Depending on the theme, we have selected a suitable light-weight paper quality. For example, papers with designs in gold, silver or bronze are printed on silky art paper on which the inks show to their best advantage. Designs with an antique or hand-made feel are printed on high-quality creamy offset paper. PEPIN papers make your gift package look very special. In addition, our papers are suitable for scrap booking and all sorts of craft projects. Each volume contains 12 different, exceptional designs.

A visual analysis of the colours used in furnishing fabrics and wallpapers from the 15th century to now, providing inspiration for designers

Spectrum offers a fascinating visual analysis of the colour palettes used in furnishing fabrics and wallpapers from the 15th century to the present day. Presented in chronological order, the earliest detail is taken from an early 15th-century embroidery in brick red, dusky pink, sage green, mustard yellow and smoky blue, the last from a graphic wallpaper design of 2009 that combines orange and yellow on a dramatic, dark background. Next to each pattern is a colour grid, which shows the relative proportions of the colours used, each labelled with its CMYK number – a worldwide standard printing code for colour that precisely identifies it. The grid gives a clear understanding of the ways colours have been expertly combined at different periods to create the beautiful designs we admire and emulate today.

This unique sourcebook will provide inspiration for all designers, both amateur and professional.

Contents List:

Introduction • About this book • About these objects • 15th century • 16th century • 17th century • 18th century • 19th century • 20th–21st century • Further reading

About the Author:

Ros Byam Shaw is a journalist who writes on design and interiors for The World of Interiors and House and Garden. She is the author of Farrow & Ball Living with Colour and Farrow & Ball Decorating with Colour as well as numerous other books on historic houses and interiors.

A fabulous archive of wearable art, this collection features more than 40 cool and witty images that will add a fashionable flair to clothes and other fabric items. Suitable for embellishing jackets, corsets, handbags, pillows, and other cloth surfaces, the easy-to-apply transfers feature stylized robots, blimps, clock faces, and a host of other mash-up motifs.

In this entirely original collection, stencil maverick Ed Roth presents 25 brand-new stencil designs - from retro-cool typewriters, microphones, and roller skates to elegant leaves, birds, and abstract shapes. Ed also offers step-by-step directions for more than 20 wildly creative projects that take stenciling to a whole new level. With the help of creative friends such as Erica Domesek of P.S. - I made this and embroidery queen Jenny Hart, Ed shows how to stencil on just about anything - T-shirts, leather, mirrors, food, and even hair - using a variety of techniques like stitching, etching, and more. Best of all, the stencils can be used again and again: just clean, dry, and store in the handy reclosable pocket at back!

Symbols isolates graphic elements out of their context in order to focus the attention on the most subtle of details, on the simplicity of forms or on infinite interpretations to a single idea. Each page in this book offers a different view which makes it full of surprises, from begining to end. As a final surprise you will find a CD showcasing some of the images illustrated in the book. Be prepared to enter a new dimension.

Тekno Logical contains more than 100 fractals and other complex geometric designs generated through mathematical formulas. Interestingly, fractal structures are omnipresent in nature and the universe. For example, rocks and mountains, trees and foliage, cloud formations, and so forth, all share the characteristic that sweeping views of them have very similar features to their most minute details. And perhaps even more fascinating is the fact that the picture of an atom is akin to that of a galaxy. Tekno Logical is a unique and highly original publication by a master in digital pattern making. All images are stored on the enclosed CD-ROM, to view on your computer, and to use for web and graphic design purposes.

Never before has a volume of such lavishness been devoted to printed textiles. Covering the past two centuries, during which the Industrial Revolution drastically altered textile manufacture, Textile Designs presents a dazzling, comprehensive selection of the colourful patterned fabrics used for clothing and interior decoration.

These are presented by pattern and motif, in contrast to the chronological displays in most books and museums. The dates and countries of origin are supplied wherever known.

This visual encyclopaedia groups textiles by pattern under five headings: Floral, Geometric, Conversational, Ethnic, and Art Movements and Period Styles. Because of the world-wide interest, this edition includes translations of all the pattern names, as well as brief general introductions to the book in French, German, Italian, Spanish and Japanese.

Textile Designs will be indispensable not only to fashion and decoration professionals, but will also be an inspiration to designers in the graphic and visual arts, a reference book for quiltmakers and collectors, and a delight for all lovers of the beautiful.

Pieced together much like the fine garments it portrays, this colourful volume guides the reader on an international textile tour, presenting in over 700 glorious photographs a raft of remarkable clothing, people and fabric from all over the world.

Taking the reader from Vietnam to Benin, from Central America to Eastern Europe, the book is brimful of stunning costumes, sumptuous fabrics and breathtaking detail.

Both an ethnographic textile map and a fabric-inspired travelogue, it explores and reveals many secrets about international textile crafts, including weaving, dyeing and appliqué. All designers, as well as anyone who loves fashion, will find this volume a huge source of inspiration, as will fans of off-the-beaten-track travel destinations.

To the general public, Alphonse Maria Mucha (1860-1939) is perhaps best known for his posters of Sarah Bernhardt and magnificent decorative panels such as "The Seasons" — works that continue to grow in popularity and value as the resurgence of interest in Art Nouveau increases. Among graphic artists and commercial designers, Mucha is praised for the innovative style books that pioneered the use of Art Nouveau in commercial packaging, design, and ornament.

The most important of these style books was Documents Décoratifs, published in 1901 at the height of Mucha's fame as the high priest of the Art Nouveau movement. While the artist's fame rests largely on his posters, it is in the smaller works of the style books, or design portfolios, that the refinement of his technique can best be appreciated. The present volume, carefully reproduced from an extremely rare and valuable set of originals, contains all 72 plates of the Documents Décoratifs portfolio. Included are designs for jewellery, wallpaper, stained glass, furniture, and tableware; figure and botanical studies; and a selection of Mucha's famous panneaux décoratifs. Eighteen of the plates are in full colour, while the remaining 54 are reproduced in two or more colour tones.

In addition to numerous innovative designs for practical and decorative objects, the elegant craftsmanship and meticulous execution that characterized all of Mucha's work is evident in studies of langorous nudes, portrait sketches, delicately rendered plant and animal motifs, exquisite modelling of drapery and cloth, and the flowing, fantastic forms created as experiments in pure design. In the Foreword by Gabriel Mourey, specially translated for this edition, Mucha's own philosophy of art, and the relation of the Documents to the rest of his work, receive an appreciative and informative discussion.

Hitherto available only in scattered sources, or in the libraries of wealthy collectors, the complete Documents Décoratifs is now available in this inexpensive one-volume edition. Lovers of Mucha's work, admirers of Art Nouveau, and the application of that style to the decorative arts, will want to own this fine royalty-free collection by one of the greatest masters of the technique.

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For more than fifty years, sisters Susan Collier and Sarah Campbell have been at the forefront of textile design with their vibrant hand-painted patterns.

Launching their careers in London during the Swinging Sixties, they made their names with stunning collections for Liberty of London Prints, and their renowned patterns, with a painterly aesthetic, marked a significant turning point in textile design.

Endlessly inventive, their work has been taken up by fashion leaders including Liberty, Yves Saint Laurent and Jaeger and major homeware producers, like Habitat, Martex, JP Stevens, Fischbacher and P Kaufmann. Inspiring a new generation of textile designers, their prints and patterns are in great demand on the vintage markets.

In 2011, the National Theatre, London, celebrated fifty years of their exuberant designs to great acclaim. Important examples of their work are held in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York.